October 31

This Day in Humor with Mike Durrett

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Born 1942: David Ogden Stiers, actor, Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, III on TV's "M*A*S*H," "Doc Hollywood," voice of Cogsworth in "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "Mighty Aphrodite," Dr. Jumba Jookiba's voice in "Lilo & Stitch."

Born 1945: Brian Doyle-Murray, improv comedian, actor, writer, Chicago's Second City, "Saturday Night Live," "Caddyshack,' "Get a Life," "Wayne's World," "Groundhog Day," "Cabin Boy," "Multiplicity," "Waiting for Guffman," "Dr. Dolittle," "Stuart Little," "Snow Dogs." Brother of Bill and Joel Murray.

Born 1950: John Candy, improv comedian, actor, writer, Toronto's Second City, "SCTV," "1941," "The Blues Brothers," "Stripes," "Vacation," "Splash," "Brewster's Millions" (1985), "Summer Rental," "Armed and Dangerous," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Spaceballs," "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" with Steve Martin, "Who's Harry Crumb?" "Uncle Buck" (great opposite tiny Macaulay Culkin), "Home Alone," "Only the Lonely," "Delirious," "Wagons East." Died 1994.

Born 1964: Rob Schneider, The Robster, The Robmeister, Roberino, Robman, Robaloo, comedian, actor, "Saturday Night Live," "Men Behaving Badly," "The Waterboy," "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," "Big Daddy," "Muppets From Space," "The Animal," "The Hot Chick."

Opening in U.S. movie theatres: Frank Capra's "Platinum Blonde" (1931) ... Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake in "Blondie Plays Cupid" (1940) ... Cassandra Peterson in "Elvira's Haunted Hills" (2002).

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